No 16 almost unreadable, No 17 readable copy of No 16. Personal affairs: A long account of his palaver with the other missionaries in his light. The teacher of Teshi ran away.
Glad that the committee agrees to the taking over of school and congregation from the government. These have been handed over to the mission even before the home boards's decision had arrived. Reason why this happened: Danish teachers resigned,…
Rain on the Coast great. 50 houses at Ussu and their chapel under construction collapsed. Difficulties of Meischel: Employs an Accra man who has as a trophy an elbow of Owusu Akyem which he himself cut off. The Accra laborers of Meischel therefore…
About requirements (pp 1-2). School materials ordered have still not arrived (p 2). Financial matters. Hospitality does not come too costly. Halleur not dead but staying with the Bapttsts at Fernando Po. Schmidt from Tantum has returned to Europe (p…
Salary accounts of the teachers: 5 teachers and one monitor in the boys' school; second school (mixed: 2 salaried teachers and a number of none salaried monitors. Third school (girls) with three teachers. There is also a paid local preacher. The…
Not happy that the committee does not send out a teacher. A missionary usually not inclined to teach 4 lessons daily. Worried that a third missionary shall come to Christiansborg. Difficulty of living together with Stanger.
1) About the transfer of the Government chaplaincy. The chaplain has fallen into the hands of the Negro girls, unsuitable. 2) Financial matter. 3) Wolf has gone to Peki, but the Hamburg Committee does not agree and commands him to go to the Danya (?)…
About the ordering of goods by the brethren (p 1). Against the custom to give European family names to newly baptized converts (p 2). Difficulties with burial of baptised Mulattos: want to be buried in their own houses and yet to have a Christian…
Parts printed: Heidenbote 1848, p 74 (Wrecked French war ship, slave trade) Not printed: Request for Thompson should be reinstalled. The risk to be taken since teacher necessary an especially Mrs. Thompson cannot be replaced. Halleur still here,…
The matter of transfer of government school and church: There are no conditions attached to the offer. The mission will be free to continue as before and to take only a few more children into its already wasting school and the care of the mulattos as…
Financial affairs. The committee is not ready to send out teachers. He saw himself forced to close the school at Labadi-at first temporarily, then definitively. He will have to do the same at Teshi (p 2). He has concluded a contract with Mr.…
Halleur’s wife has become blind on one eye. Halleurs leave for Europe. At Quitta (Keta) the Anglos attacked the Governor, a punitive expedition is planned. The Hamburg Missionaries therefore prevented from going there. They now stay with Schiedt. Two…
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